Blue Bonnets

Well I think I'd like to thank you

but maybe curse you first.

A cold clear drink of water

but not enough to quench the thirst.

You showed me what was possible

then took it all away

and I'll never quite get over wishing

things could've stayed the same.

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Not every story has a happy ending

nor every tragedy so quite impending.

So there's nothing left to do but sit and sing 

and think about blue bonnet fields in spring.

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It didn't take too long for me

to fall in love with you.

There's no simple explanation 

for how quick the feelings grew.

It crashed on me and tossed me round

like waves on sun-beat sand.

I stumbled in foolheartedly

to your temporary hands.

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Your majesty amazed me, 

your wonders never ceased.

Our time apart has brought me war, 

where once you brought me peace.

Not every story has a happy ending

nor every tragedy so quite impending.

So there's nothing left to do but sit and sing 

and think about blue bonnet fields in spring.

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The deepest darks devour

all the lights of solemn days; 

a clashing cataclysm of

both predator and prey.

Tis worse to have lost a love

you'll never have again,

than to live in blissful ignorance

in the time of what had been.

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Now you're gone, and blue bonnets cease to bloom.

The Texan fields I used to roam are Virginia mountain gloom.

And you're gone, but you made me love you first.

I'm thankful for the loving days, but spiteful of the thirst.

and I pray this story has a happy ending

for the tragedies just never stop impending.

I've got nothing left to do but sit and sing 

and think about blue bonnet fields in spring.

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